Alternative Textbook Initiative
The University of Oklahoma Libraries is announcing the continuation of the Alternative Textbook Grant initiative for the 2015-2016 year. All University of Oklahoma full-time faculty are eligible to apply for one of fifteen project awards of up $2,500 in funding and support. The College of Arts and Sciences has generously offered to match up to the Library granted funds for all CAS faculty. Grant applications will be open from January to April 15th of 2015.
Open Educational Resources
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
Creative Commons Licenses
There are six Creative Commons (CC) licenses. These CC licenses indicate the use parameters that have been granted by the content creator. The content creator still owns the copyright to that content, but through the selected CC license the creator is granting re-use of the content under the specified parameters.
